Like the funny brilliant bawdy (The New Yorker) Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! this
book's many stories-some funny others intensely moving-display Richard P. Feynman's
unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recount important moments from
his life. Here we meet Feynman's first wife Arlene who taught him of love's irreducible
mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked on the atomic bomb at nearby Los
Alamos. We listen to the fascinating narrative of the investigation into the space shuttle
Challenger's explosion in 1986 and relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster's cause
through an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling
it out misshapen. In What Do You Care What Other People Think? one of the greatest physicists
of the twentieth century lets us see the man behind the genius.
